Deepak Bhatia wrote:
I am working on a project related to the dynamic linker on Solaris.
You have asked a number of rudimentary questions in regards this area of Solaris on this alias, and I have suggested that you target your questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is a more appropriate alias for link-editor issues.
This involves understanding the code from /usr/src/cmd/sgs/rtld/ directory. When I create an ELF File on my i386 machine with Solaris Nevada and execute the code ./ld.so.1 a.out I am not able to reach the file a.out.c which it looks like is used to handle old a.out (Assembler OUTput) file. Please confirm if this is true or not.
There are a number of files under rtld/common with the name "a.out". These files are responsible for processing old, 4.x, AOUT files. These are the files generated by the operating system that existed *before* Solaris came to life (please excuse those in marketing who decided to rename this old release Solaris 1). AOUT files are *not* produced by todays Solaris - never have been, never will be. The runtime linkers capability to run old AOUT files was designed to allow a migration path for 4.x customers to the *new* Solaris. Given that we're now several years into the *new* Solars :-), I have on my list of things to do, the EOL of all this AOUT technology. I find it hard to believe that anyone still expects a 4.x binary to run on Solaris (although Sun had a few squirreled away up until a couple of years ago). So, if you are playing with the runtime linker, I wouldn't expect you to ever call the code in a.out.c - look at elf.c instead. -- Rod _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
